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- Sound Off: Water fountains May 22, 2013 · 1 comment
- City commissioner wants state to revoke nightclub's liquor license May 21, 2013 · 72 comments
- Planning Commission recommends approval of Menards store for south Lawrence May 20, 2013 · 77 comments
- Opinion: Amid crisis, Europe resists extremism May 21, 2013 · 64 comments
- House Republican leaders propose 1.5 percent cut to higher education for each of next two fiscal years May 21, 2013 · 30 comments
- City commissioner wants review of city's storm shelter policies in wake of Oklahoma tornado May 22, 2013 · 13 comments
- City accepts recreation center bids, but won' t proceed with building until Fritzel provides infrastructure costs May 21, 2013 · 28 comments
- Editorial: Guns, speech May 23, 2013 · 1 comment
- Blog: FreedomWorks urges Legislature to reject Common Core reading and math standards May 21, 2013 · 30 comments
- Blog: Kansas science and math teachers easily recruited away May 20, 2013 · 53 comments
- LHS student earns perfect ACT score May 21, 2013
- Tarik Black strong, physical May 22, 2013
- Two men face charges in Sunday morning shooting May 22, 2013
- Man curses Democrats from 120-year-old grave June 18, 2010
- City commissioner wants state to revoke nightclub's liquor license May 21, 2013
Budget provision would block state funding for Common Core standards
Indiana did the same thing, after the local schools have already spend resources to to the preliminary work. I thought it was only the Army that dug ditches and then filled them in. Conservatives waste so much time hunting imaginary bogeymen. We live in a very mobile society. Children seldom finish school in the same school district that they started in. Many move to and from other states. The idea is to have as much as possible a universal model, so that students are learning pretty much the same things at the same grade level. I've sat in on school board meetings when this stuff is discussed (boring!). Hardly political. In many ways it's simply too much micro managing. But then, just like MBA's, what's the point of Ph.D.'s in Education if they don't have something to do? Far better them them than a bunch of legislators.
May 17, 2013 at 8:30 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
House Republicans outline new tax plan
For the vast majority of us math is math. If try to cut two types of taxes, you end up in lower revenues in the short term for sure, and most likely also in the long term. But for the GOP that still believes in spontaneous generation, cutting something = more of that something being created.
May 16, 2013 at 9:03 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Brownback: Private GOP tax talks ‘going well’
When Obama did this with Obamacare, had control of the House and temporary control of the Senate, he was accused of ramming legislation down the throats of Americans. When he won't give up on changing the tax rates on upper earners in exchange for entitlement reform, he's accused of an unwillingness to compromise and exhibit bi-partisanship. In Kansas, we don't even bother. All hail, Brownbackistan.
May 14, 2013 at 8:18 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Revenue secretary says tax cuts are working
Can we get any more apples and oranges, here? Last I checked, April is tax filing month. Possibly the increase in receipts is due to people you under withheld for the year and had to pay at the end. Perhaps it just means that more people are working - is that due to Brownback or those policies out of DC? (Or just as likely - independent of both). And these are the "individual" tax receipts - what of the business receipts, and the total revenue taken in? Brownback's tax changes simply now allow pass through of partnership earnings to the individuals. The question is what was lost as a result of the change?
May 6, 2013 at 8:29 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
State officials working overtime to keep up with concealed-carry permits
Mine go back to the Abolitionists, farmed, worked the WPA (and still didn't vote for FDR), and don't feel a need for concealed carry. You miss the point - it's hardly a priority to devote any over time to this task. Any over time and staff should be assigned elsewhere. People can wait.
May 3, 2013 at 11:04 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
State officials working overtime to keep up with concealed-carry permits
How about devoting overtime and staff to shutting down meth labs? Or investigating medical provider Medicaid fraud? Or dozens of other far more pressing things. Again, they aren't taking your guns away. They're just giving you the right to be a bigger yahoo than you already are.
May 3, 2013 at 8:22 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Rules tighten on TANF recipients
Yep, that $282 per month really funds a nice lifestyle.
May 2, 2013 at 8:38 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Lawrence ranked second-worst-performing small metro area, according to new national economic index
Must be something about Kansas. There is nothing to applaud when none of our major cities rank high. KCK beating out Topeka which beat out Wichita, but all in the bottom half. Rockford, IL ranked above these places. I've been to Rockford. That's a really sad comparison.
April 30, 2013 at 12:11 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Opinion: Guessing game — Nobody knows where prep phenom Andrew Wiggins will spend his one year in college
All the more reason that Louisville should be in the Big 12. We have to protect all the other sports.
April 22, 2013 at 5:01 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Gun rights bills on target for final passage
Kansas went for Bryan in '96 (farmers don't trust banks or railroads), FDR in '32 and '36 (farmers don't trust banks or Hoover), and for LBJ in '64 (yes, Goldwater was that crazy). Starting with George Docking, there has been a string of Democratic governors and a Democratic House with Jon Carlin as Speaker. The death penalty was abolished. Up until the pro-lifers gained even greater influence when partnered with the Kochs and Chamber money, Kansas was red, but not the crazy red it is today. Kansans owned shotguns for pheasant and quail (until the land was all turned over to corn), and a 22 for squirrels and rabbits. The occasional "big gun" was for coyotes. Only the scared in the cities owned hand guns "to prevent" crime.
April 5, 2013 at 11:54 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )